Disruptors

Through a partnership with Bitcoin payment processor BitPay Inc., Gyft now accepts bitcoins for its mobile gift card product. This extends the virtual currency's reach to more than 50,000 retail locations.

MasterCard delivered its biggest commitment to financial inclusion to date, announcing the rollout of 13 million smart cards that would also serve as national identity cards for Nigerians.

Advantage Refreshments knows its vending machines look just like those operated by rivals, so it's trying to attract repeat business with a loyalty program from payments hardware maker USA Technologies.

Koupah, which is providing a new point of sale card acceptance tablet, aims to offset credit card transaction fees with ads.

CardFlight aims to make in-person purchases easier by enabling merchants to accept swiped card payments within their own mobile apps.

Simplee uses a personal financial management-style system with payment capabilities to help healthcare providers cut costs by making bill payments more straightforward.

Paidpiper Inc., once a poster child of MasterCard Inc.'s push to work with small developers, is finally ready to launch its product — without its previous reliance on MasterCard.

Revel Systems Inc. is launching a system that adds security to swiped card payments by displaying the accountholder's photo on its iPad-based point of sale terminal.

Alpha Payments Cloud is aiming to make the deployment of payments technology more flexible, thus allowing companies to adopt new payments products at a faster pace.

Two payments technology veterans are working on a mobile wallet that would not require changes to the hardware and software at the point of sale.

When experiments in lending are properly organized and priced, they can be successful for borrowers and lenders of all income groups, even in tough times.

New York livery car groups won a bid to block a pilot program that would enable people to hail and pay for rides in one of the city’s 13,000 yellow taxis using location-based smartphone applications.

PageOnce is changing its name to Check, a rebranding that signals the mobile financial management company's new focus on payments.

Tradehill is relaunching its virtual currency trading system after it shut down an earlier version of its offering last year amid regulatory disputes and a legal fight with online payment company Dwolla.

Gene Cornfield, chief marketing officer for digital gift card provider CashStar Inc., recently sat down with PaymentsSource to discuss how Starbucks, Apple and other companies are setting the tone for the next developments in mobile commerce.

The biggest names in digital payments — PayPal, Isis, Google — have one thing in common: they all have a relationship with Discover Financial Services.

RentPaidOnline (RPO), an online payment service for property managers, and mobile commerce provider Spindle are partnering to develop a mobile version of RPO’s portal.

The launch of the Smart Jets mobile app is giving big spenders a new way to pay for private jet flights. Smart Jets targets customers with a net worth of at least $30 million.

When the latest "As Seen on TV" must-have gadget appears on-screen, consumers may someday be able to make the first of their payments by pressing a few buttons on their remote control. It may seem far-fetched, but it's a future that Ingenico chairman and CEO Philippe Lazare says is well within reach.

Flash Valet, which uses mobile technology to facilitate payments for valet service providers, is creating a companion mobile app for consumers.